I know that pretty soon we’re going to need a separate section for boring tip bitches, but this one is legit, I swear.
To the overgrown moron of a wannabe fratboy that works in our local pub (small neighborhood, you know who you are):
I’ve been eating in your establishment since moving to the area 2 years ago, and considering it’s not the goddamned Waldorf Astoria, I appreciate that on a typical night I can get me and my S.O. a special and a beer for around 25 bucks, thus leaving about $5 for a tip if i budget for $30. That’s a 20% tip brah, for bringing me some fuckin fries and a beer. It’s not like you gave me a lapdance with it or cut the potatoes by hand or anything.
So then why is it that on the one occasion I bring friends into your DEAD establishment and spend $150 on drinks for a birthday, and tip $10, you have the nerve to call me out on it??
The kitchen was closed when we got there, YOU were the bartender and you spent more time hanging out and shooting the shit than you did working. And you still had the balls to say “um…just so you know, i have to tip out on that. So really, you only tipped me $4. Just so you know for next time!”
Ummm, who did you tip out to? Yourself? And that isn’t my problem bud, take it up with your manager or find a new job closer to downtown. Many servers who don’t get tipped have to eat it and end up paying out of pocket to tip out. as far as I’m concerned, if you still walk away with money, you’re still getting money you wouldn’t have had if you were flipping burgers right now, or riding a desk.
We were there for a birthday, if we were rich, do you think we would have been there? If you were rich, would you spend your birthday in an establishment that has shit smears on the stall door? We wanted to go out, but instead decided to pool all monetary resources and keep drinking somewhere cheap til it was gone. And that’s OUR choice. I’m not going to skip a round on my girlfriends birthday to give you a giant tip you don’t deserve. I make peanuts for what I do, and I had to get an education to do it. So why am I responsible to pay your rent simply for having birthday drinks in your shitty bar?
If you want to make $20 an hour, become a plumber or a pharmacist. As it stands, you’re my goddamned waiter, and the job description on the Kijiji ad you had to answer to get your job said minimum wage. Get over it.
—NSCC costs like $2000, that’s a good deal.
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2009.
Wow, I can’t believe he actually called you on it. What did he expect, for you to dig back into your wallet and give him more? He sounds more like a street beggar than a bartender.
I would have asked for my tip money back paid just the bill and told him he didn’t deserve a tip. Then I would have asked to speak to his manager.
I would have kicked him in the face with my energy legs.
back in the day, as they say, I’m not ashamed to say I worked at a service station, emphasis on service BTW, and the routine was always the same….give kickass service by washing windows, checking oil (and burning my hands in the process sometimes) checking radiator fluid, brake fluid…whatever the customer needed, within reasonable time constraints. I took pride in what I did, and made sure that the customer left from what was a negative purchase (you never really feel like you’re getting anthing for your money when you fill up)feeling positive. Every now and again, I would be singled out for giving exceptional service, and rewarded as such with a tip. It might have ranged anywhere from a quarter up to the largest one I ever got which was a 24 of beer (I gotta tell ya, on a hot summer day, after spending ten minutes scrubbing bugs and shit off of someones window, that made my frigging week)!! The point is I offered a good service, but never expected a tip, and was more than grateful when I received one, no matter how big or small. If your job is to serve the public, then that’s your job. You take the job knowing what your duties are, so just do them. To EXPECT a tip is wrong (some resturants automatically include a gratuity in the bill, which I think is wrong). If you are hired and told that your wages are minimum wage plus tips…there’s no gaurentee how much you really will make outside of your hourly wage, so to berate or try to shame your customers into leaving big tips for small service is counterproductive, because they probably will not come back again. Instead of winning people over with exceptional service, you are driving them away with a piss poor atitude. You want a good tip??? Don’t eat yellow snow! here’s another one…buy low, sell high! Those are on the house for all you service oriented “professionals” who think the public in general are stingy. Best of all, you didn’t have to do a goddamn think to earn them, so they should make up for all the tips you wont get in the future with your piss poor attitude.
your a cheap bastard…go to the liquour store and buy the booze there…that wasn’t even 10% you cheap fuck…
Before all of the haters get rolling, $10 on a $150 tab *does* make you out to be a cheap fuck, your rationalization and other BS aside.
Hey Cranky, if you went to the tailor and had him fit you out for a suit..somthing that takes a bit of time to have custom made, and then he handed you a bill for $1000 bucks for the suit, would you feel compelled to give him $1150 and tell him the extra was for him? Probably not, but why?? He’s in the customer service based industry, and just provided you with a service…so what up??? Why is it in some service based industries, tips are expected, but in others, they are not. Bottem line is, if you are happy with the service you have received, than it should be entirely up to you whether or not you want to give a tip, and the amount should be what you feel is appropriate, not what is mandated by society…yes?
I don’t tip the counterpeople at Timmy’s when I get a coffee, but I don’t tip the counterpeople at Macdonalds or Wendys either…why should I feel compelled to tip one and not the other? I think most people would agree that you would be more inclined to leave a tip, if there was less pressure by society to HAVE to leave a tip. If I’m going to be called a cheap cunt regardless, I would rather leave the money in my pocket, instead of someone elses.
So lesson; in Halifax if you don’t tip big don’t bother at all.
there’s a lot of truth to balls statement.
You can’t always tip big.
Hatescheapfuckers & Cranky:
This is a serious question and in no way is intended to start a bitch/flame war. Why do servers/bartenders/hairdressers/etc automatically deserve a certain percentage/amount for a tip? Why should it be based on how much money you spend? Why must a patron tip them in first place? I’d really like an explanation on this issue and not some incoherant raging bitch for a response.
I tip only if I’m happy with the SERVICE I have PAID FOR at the establishment I’m in. If I am unhappy with the service because I’ve been kept waiting for someone to come take my order, or if my server just sits at the bar until I ask he/she to come over – you can fuck right off if I’m going to leave you a tip.
I work in customer service, thus provide a service that is EXPECTED of me. I only get REWARDED when I have performed above and beyond my expectations.
Tipping customs vary from region to region, country to country. I don’t know how it is decided nor why. I just know what is acceptable here. I tend to frequent the same places on a regular basis. Do I get better service because of my tip %? Quite possible. Should it be neccessary for me to tip to get good service? Not at all.
Yes, the waiter was a douche. However, maybe he was just telling you, thinking you might not have known any better. I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear the tone in his voice or witness his body language.
I tip an appropriate amount. If the service is crap, not so much.
FWIW, I worked in a restaurant for 7-8 years and am now employed in a non-tip-getting enviroment.
This is almost as much fun as arguing about the pay/benfits of CUPE employees vs whatever lameass private sector job you’ve got.
I think the OP makes a good argument here – just because I can afford to eat out doesn’t mean I can always afford a full 15-20% tip every time. I know some people who won’t even buy a coffee if they don’t have any extra quarter for a tip, but I tip when I can when the service is good (NOTE I said “good” not average, and definitely not bad). If the waiter had said that to me I would have asked for the tip back, seriously. That’s way out of line.
Cranky, why should the OP have to be “told” how tips work, Its NOT the customer’s problem that he has to tip out to the house. Thats the system they use. I shouldn’t have to compensate for it. He knew the deal when he started his job.
tough shit for the server.
When you guys can separate tipping etiquette vs the tipping entitlement issue we’ll probably make some headway on this/these issues.
Entitlement… Some people think they just deserve everything.
Give me a tip, I served you. Teacher give me a hint. Give me your wallet. Got some change mister? I’m homeless, I hit him officer because he was not in the cross walk. Its cold I want a free one, And my money back. What’s your name? Who’s the manager! I want to speak to the fucking manager! I demand satisfaction, gimme a sign Give me attention, give me some space, I want what’s coming to me. It’s my right to bear arms, It’s my right to a fair trial, It’s my right to preach on the street corner, fur is murder . Rum is a sin. I had the right of way, it’s my turn. Oh by the way… I don’t want five percent.
Give me my 18 percent
it’s fucking simple….
1. If you can’t afford to tip STAY THE FUCK HOME AND COOK YOUR OWN MEAL AND GET OFF YOUR FAT LAZY ASS AND GET YOUR OWN BEER.
2. Stop compairing service to fast food…huge difference.
3. If you are a cheap prick and don’t want to tip…and make statements like…get a job that pays more…It is not my fault your employer pays you minimum wage….I am not going to supliment your wage…FUCK OFF = stay home you are a cheap bastard. Go climb back up the mountain and finish having sex with your sister…
Stop coming up with Bull shit statements…If service sucks don’t tip and tell the manager…there thats easy eh?
I picture the ant-tippers as a cross between George Costanza and Nancy Grace.
Seriously, I would actually be embarrassed to leave 2 bucks on the table after a dinner. Its all about class folks. You can’t buy it, and no, tipping properly doesn’t give it to you, but not tipping certainly takes it away (if you thought you had any in the first place)
Think of it as money in the Karma Bank.
hmm. i’m pretty sure 10 bucks cuts it.
What really annoys me is when people are paid less by their employers under the assumption that they are going to be tipped enough to make up for it. Evil.
ineedapill… wow.
1. this has been beaten to death but… if the cost of a meal expected a gratuity, they would include it in the listed price. Because your attitude sucks while carrying it to my table or you just abandon your duties to go smoke or lick a carrot in the freezer or whatever the hell they do while buggering off for what seems to be an eternity at a time is beyond me.
2. in this case, not really. How is scooping fries/pouring a drink and putting it in a bag/tray harder than reading a beer label, opening and perhaps even pouring it?
3. I do enjoy cooking most of the time but it’s nice to get out and see how others do it. Not to mention the lack of dish-cleaning afterward. I like to tip when I can but if I have a twenty and the steak is $16 bucks, I shouldn’t bother? ok, well what if the steak is on special that night and it’s only $14 bucks? what the fuck is the difference in your job that warrants me being “allowed” to order the steak then?
seems to me you’re getting hung up on percentage rather than performance and pride in your work. Could this be why you seem so bitter about it? hmmmm
So coming back to it, was the OP really expected to pay 22 bucks to have someone fetch and open beer for the party for a few hours?
God waitstaff are totally in the background and are unnoticed throughout the meal. If they aren’t there when you need them they aren’t doing their job. If they’re hovering over you like a servant, they’re in the way.
Fucked up world, eh?
You folks should move to Vietnam where tipping is illegal.
I ate place in Vermont where an automatic 15% (or was it 20?) was added to the bill for parties over 6. The place was packed, just the same.
This guy is running the bar alone. You and your friends have him make 30 – 40 drinks, you seriously cheap out on a tip and have the balls to post here as a bitch? You fuckin’ bitch! Do you think he keeps a job in a service industry with standard tipping practices (as opposed to other services we don’t often tip for, me myself and I) and you really think he’s actually working there for the fucking minimum wage? You’re out of your minds! Don’t go out if you can’t afford to… this bartender is certainly not there to NOT make tips. His “tipping-out” excuse probably does get divided up with the kitchen whether there are cooks in there or not but it was more than likely a way of saying “have you lost your mind?”
If someone goes over and above their JOB and makes my experience that much better, sure I will leave a tip If not then you earned your hourly wage. (A tip to me is one that I can afford that doesn’t put me in a tight squeeze. See I get paid every two weeks not like the servers and bartenders that walk away with tips in their pockets everynight.) So I have to budget like most people.
FUCK all of you who think that because I can go out and treat myself to eat I haver to feel obligated to tip you. HA See how that works for you. Oh and if it weren’t for ALL customers servers / bartenders / hairdressers
would have no jobs.
Cheap or Poor that is the question…..And if someone is lacking in funds who is anyone else to shit on them for it or pass judgement. You would think that a server / bartender / hairdresser etc… would understand the value of the almighty dollar.
When it’s cheap, fast and non-alcoholic it’s made for you and your pocketbook, Enough said! Back to McD’s with ya!
Go out for the atmosphere, the service AND quality of product… then it’s appropriate (in this part of the world) to tip. Drink at home if you can’t afford to or don’t deserve to enjoy such luxuries as overpriced booze and the service that goes with it.
Trust me! No bartender is doing their job with an expectation of minimum wage. If it were me, the next time I saw you poor, cheap idiots walk into my bar I’d refuse to start a tab for you… let you tip me for each round of service and if I don’t like your tips, you’re not gonna like my service… please leave. I’d resent you just like you’d resent me using up my time when I could be spending it earning what I deserve… gratitude. Just stay home. You make people with money and an expectation of quality service think they don’t belong there.
What I want to know is whoever decided what “customer service jobs” deserved tips, and what ones didn’t. Is there some kinda fucking commisiion out there that decided they had such broadsweeping powers that they could decide for the entire population who deserved what? Man FUCK THAT!!! If you think you deserve more for doing your job, go fire up the puter and log onto career beacon or some other job posting website and see what’s out there. Some of us poor fuckers can only afford a night out for a meal or a drink every other never, so when I go out, I want to make sure that I have the most enjoyable evening that I can. If that means that I keep some of my hard earned money in my own pocket and manage to get an extra drink at the bar, or dessert with my meal..hey fucking great for me!! I worked hard for that shit, and deserve it. But to have someone try to make me feel like I “owe” them for them just doing their job, that someone else hired them for and negotiated a salary with them for……uh …….kiss my ass grasshopper!! Maybe all the “customer service people” such as wait staff should move to BC, as I remember correctly, waitstaff in bars are Unionized and make a nice wage without any tips, mind you it’s hard to get a job there because I guess there is very little turnover…probably because they know where their bread is buttered. Bottem line is, I don’t tell anyone where and how to spend their money, so anyone wanting to do that to me can FUCK RIGHT OFF!!!!
Oh yeah..and to “ineedapill”..your statement makes me laugh.
“1. If you can’t afford to tip STAY THE FUCK HOME AND COOK YOUR OWN MEAL AND GET OFF YOUR FAT LAZY ASS AND GET YOUR OWN BEER”
Geez I hope your not wait staff, cause if everybody takes your advice, and in these tough economic times, it’s easy to make an arguement for staying home and cooking for ones self, or buying a case of frosties at the NSLC, you would be out of a job!! And since its been pointed out that most waitstaff make minimum wage, try paying the rent on what you would get from riding the pogy train with minimun wage the basis for what they pay you!! As I wrote in a previous post, I don’t tell other people how to spend their money, and I’ll be good goddamned if I’ll let some cunthooks tel me how to spend mine.
Choke on it!!
While I always tip (I suppose I’m a sucker like that), the server in question is a huge fucking douche. When it comes right down to it, it’s not the customer’s job to supplement your income further because, hey, and I know this is a CRAZY idea, it’s assumed that your salary comes out of what you are charging me for my meal.
Honestly, I’ve had some great service and have no problem tipping in general (I’m a sucker, in fact. On sat I tipped 5 bucks on a 7 dollar breakfast at a certain awesome breakfast restaurant because the server was awesome). But, if your server is calling you out on your tip they’re most likely an asshole who get shafted a lot because they are an asshole. If you’re constantly getting shafted on tips to the point where you have to cry about it to your customers, perhaps you should look for ways to improve your service. I have family in the restaurant industry and have never had problems with getting shafted on tips because imagine this: they provide great service and aren’t assholes. Gee.
Kay is a perfect example of the “me, me, me” mentality.
“let you tip me for each round of service and if I don’t like your tips, you’re not gonna like my service”
Wow, Princess! Thanks for letting me be near you.
Tell ya what, Kay. Next time I’m treating you, if I don’t like your attitude, you won’t like your medical treatment.
Sounds fair to me!
When it’s cheap, fast and non-alcoholic it’s made for you and your pocketbook, “me, myself & I”. Back to McD’s with ya! Nobody’s gonna ask for a tip in a place like that so you just take your whole budget and fill your boots. The pub won’t miss you or your friends as much as you think.
There’s no need to grovel for tips on a doctor’s salary, Matthew. There’s a reason multi-tier health care isn’t embraced by Canadians and this is it.
It’s not about being near me, it’s about taking up space in my workplace. It’s about sharing in (imposing on) an atmosphere of hospitality you can’t have at home. If you can’t afford to be there, don’t be. We’ll all get along much better.
Exactly. My reason for dining out is NOT because I can’t cook or open my own beer.
Something just came to mind: lets start bitching about being charged $50 for a $10 slab of meat!
Go at it, you cheap-ass bastards.
Bartender prolly could have taken it as a point wow these people tipped me 10 bucks on 150 when they usually tip 5 on a 25 bill wonder what I did wrong?
I def dont think he should have said anything about the $10 given to him even if he only gets to keep 4.
It is so true though in Halifax tipping is customary I dont know why but it is. So if you cant aford to tip stay home. The argument of if I can get an extra drink or desert with my meal is so fucking stupid if your worried about how much your getting for how much your spending your in the wrong place stupid!
Im not suggesting that bad service should be rewarded but having talked to friends of mine you serve a $1 tip on a $50 tab sticks out in their mind and makes them wonder what they did wrong.
To the people who go out to a descent restaurant knowing they are not going to tip or tip shitty no matter how good the service is… it doesnt really matter how you justify it in your mind… deep down you know and everyone else knows your just CHEAP
Kay
“It’s about sharing in (imposing on) an atmosphere of hospitality you can’t have at home.”
So you need money for an atmosphere of hospitality….
Sounds like the World’s Oldest Profession, if you get my drift.
An expectation of a tip is foul and offensive, rather it should flow from good service. And if someone doesn’t tip you and you know that you did a good job, suck it up, and write it off.
BTW, I typically tip very well, and on the rare occasion I don’t, I tell the server to their face why.
Generally, I’ll tip my waitstaff,cabbie, whomever, as long as the service was good. Hell if I get a cab home and the ride costs me $40 but the cabbie wasn’t an ass and didn’t take the longest route possible to gouge me, I’ll even give him a $10 tip. But if I go out for dinner or a drink and the food sucks/service is shitty, you’re damn right I’m not gonna give a good tip, if I even get one at all. If the service sucks I WANT the person to think they did something wrong. To OP if I were you I would have told the douchebag right to his face to suck it up or get a job that doesn’t involve serving people. I’m in the customer service industry and no matter how good my service is I’m not allowed to accept tips. I’ve been offered $100 tips before, and just because I can’t accept them doesn’t mean I’m going to provide lousy service. It’s your job, do it well. If you EXPECT it, find a better paying one.
If everyone tipped the assumed tip percentage could probably drop down abit but everyone don’t tip so I guess us tippers need to make up the difference. About hairstylists and this is just my opinion, my daughter is a hairstylist she makes minimum wage plus tips. Buys her own tools of the trade, pays money off of her paycheque to supply customers with coffee/tea etc. She stands on her feet all day, deals with peoples funky dirty heads, lice etc. same thing, only every other person gives her a tip for her service. Its a hard industry, I know she picked it and probably won’t stay, lets face it, you don’t see too many old hairstylists. I’m rambling so heres the deal, if people don’t tip, she’ll never be able to afford to move out!
Yes Matthew, you need money to be in an atmosphere of hospitality. I’m glad you’re catching on! We don’t let you take up space on private property for nothing anywhere else. Try sitting in a hotel lobby, sip on water, do nothing else and mind your own business for an hour then see what happens… this is no different. Slowing service or even refusing service for cheap patrons is no different.
I’d catch your drift if you weren’t so far out in left field with that crap inference too.
Maybe you should live on minimum wage for a nice long time and see how you feel about not getting tipped at your server’s job… and then go ask the kitchen, bartenders and hostesses how they feel about you not tipping… especially the kitchen. The world is bigger than you, your meal and your server. The back of the house has big interest in your tip and doesn’t really care how much you’ve put in during previous visits when they come up short at the end of a shift.
I think most of what people are saying here is they have no problem tipping, the problem they DO have is when they get harassed when they don’t tip enough or whatever when tipping is completely voluntary! I think the issue here is the entitlement and how this shit is taken for granted these days.
Just like people take for granted that the tip is all for the server, Kitty?
Kay, we are well aware that kiten staff get part of tips as well, but at times it’s their fault for not cooking the food properly either. Yes, there are lots of kitchen staff who actually care about what they’re doing, but there are also a lot who don’t. I tip based on my ENTIRE experience at the establishment I’m at. Not just because of one person. Although if one person really pisses me off or fucks me over, I’ll gladly tell the management that my tip is not to go towards them and hand it to the manager in person.
“I think most of what people are saying here is they have no problem tipping, the problem they DO have is when they get harassed …”
Sorry PK, I think you skipped over a few comments too many. I read more than once “if they want more money get a job” or “it isn’t my job to supplement their income” comments among others.
CRIPES aren’t we all a little long winded today? We obviously feel rather passionately about this issue?
My view? The waiter was a prick. Don’t EVER TELL me what I should and should not tip. If the service is good and I’m happy with her/him, you bet your ass I’ll tip, and I’ll tip whatever I can afford to ( I do NOT have money). If there is some attitude or just person is just an asshole in general, I will NOT tip. that has nothing to do with the food. I never go in feeling obligated to tip. If that makes me a cheap bitch, so beit, I’ll sleep well tonight nonetheless.
The thing is. He did not TELL him how to tip.
According to the OP… “”um…just so you know, i have to tip out on that. So really, you only tipped me $4. Just so you know for next time!”
Think of it as a PSA.
Seriously, you people get your noses out of joint pretty easily.
The fact that he told him that out of a $10 tip he only gets $4, means that if he really expected that full $10 tip, with the tip out, he’d be expecting the guy to tip him $25 to open bottles of beer all night. Seems a bit much to tip a bartender. The thing is that if we all got to choose where our tips went when we left them, I know that more often than not, My tip would go to the kitchen, because I go to restaurants for the food. If the service sucks, but my food was amazing I’ll still be back. If the service was great, but the food sucked, why would I go back? So all you servers who think we’re obligated to tip you need to realise that we aren’t there because of your amazing smile.
Tipping is NOT mandatory, and If I want food, and don’t feel like tipping you, it doesn’t mean that I should stay at home, it means that you’re not worth my money, the food is.
No, People Are Stupid, if you want food and don’t feel like tipping… Back to McD’s with ya!
Thank you, “people are stupid” very well written.
Geesh, Kay.
Repeat yourself much?
If you go to the same restaurant a few times and on your 1st and 2nd visit you don’t tip then maybe the waiters and chefs (as they all probably stick together) may give you a tip by pissing in your soup or even taking a dump in your meat pie as I know you get them as I’ve seen them on TV. So a restaurant could be a doggie place not to tip (apart from McDonalds as they probably shit and piss in your food any way with or without a tip) but Waiters get a wage for there job and chose to be a waiter, if they could not be bothered to study hard at school and stopped making an ass of them selves and stopped acting like a twat with a small dick and got a proper education so they can get a good job. Do you tip a barman every time he gives you your beer? Or give the bin men a tip for taking your rubbish away? Do people give prostitutes a tip and say nice shag if was good.
If I eat at a place and the food is fantastic and the service sucks, I don’t go back. Duh. I stopped going to a place for 6 months (until the waitstaff got turned around) before I went back. And it was my favourite place. If it still sucked after 6 months. I’d wait another 6.
In Montreal strip clubs it is customary to tip the doorman who takes you to your seat. Wrap your cheap-ass heads around that one.
The servers in MTL strip clubs don’t go away unless you tip either. The doormen Cranky’s talking about are big fuckers too. They make Halifax bouncers look like Gilligan.
I personally only tip if the service is good, and friendly. If some punk ass doesn’t like it, I’ll take it up with the Manager. I have taken alot of jobs from piss poor service. Adapt and survive Servers.
This is a little bit unrelated, but Im leaving for Paris this Saturday – and my tour company just informed our group we are each REQUIRED to pay a fifty dollar tip at the START of the trip. To, get this, ensure good service.
I am pro-tip (I like to think I leave good tips, I also work in an environment where I get tips) however – I think that is bloody ridiculous. There are thirteen of us going on this trip… thats a 650 dollar tip that we are giving out before we are even served. Im pissed. That is ridiculous. Tips are rewarded for good service. In no way whatsosever is ANYONE entitled to tips! I dont care who you are, you are not automatically deserving of tips.
As I may have said before, I work two jobs – one in a pizzeria and one in a drug store. I live in a small town so I have regulars that frequent both stores, I give them the same cheerful service no matter where I see them. Do I get tips at my drug store job? Hell no! But I still joke around with my customers, am still polite, and still do my job well.
When Im at the pizzeria – truth be told, I base the quality of my food (although its never below a certain level!) on the politeness of the customer on the phone – you know, how they treat me, not how much change they decide to leave me. At that job Im not only staffing the phones and cash, but I prepare the food, and also serve it to anyone eating in. Yet despite all that – if my customers dont leave me a tip, I dont rag them out for it. Its their perogative. Maybe they cant afford to leave me a tip after they pay for the meal – afterall they have three kids (but have you talked with them at all, do you know they have kids?)- but does that mean they shouldnt enter the establishment? Fuck no! It is their right to spend their money as they please.
Maybe all you arrogant servers should remember that.
I dont care who you are or where you work, what ever happened to good service?
When I go out to eat, I make sure I can afford it. So tipping, in my arena, has nothing to do with the amount of money that I have.
Also, the server is the face of the business. If you’re a cunt to me, and those I’m with, it doesn’t matter how good the food is – you leave a sour taste in my mouth through your shitty service, you can forget a tip.
In Halifax there are places that I will certainly tip, there are others which have to earn it (namely some pubs/bars).